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Title: On the Day After Tomorrow
Fandom: Person of Interest
Characters Reese/Finch
Rating: Teen
Length: 200 words
Content notes

Everyone thinks about the future



John knows he shouldn't but sometimes he thinks about the future.

But that's not true. He thinks about a possible future, one where Samaritan's defeated, there are no more numbers and they've both defied the odds by surviving to see it.

He imagines Harold's face as he leans in slowly for their first kiss, always giving Harold the room he might need to gently turn him down.

Harold would never do anything less, would never be cruel, but he might, just might, do more and that thought keeps John going, enabling him to keep getting up when he's knocked down.


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Harold cannot think about the future.

He tries not to dwell on the actual math but the odds against their surviving are impossibly high and he knows it.

Yet the heart wants what it wants.

He imagines seizing the day, reaching out for John, kissing him, dropping slowly to his knees and fellating him but what if John with sad, pitying eyes, his voice soft, turned him down?

John would be kind, he knows it, just as he knows John would continue their work together but Harold can't risk it. Both of them need their only real friend too much.




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